Example sentences of "just [subord] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sad in several ways , not just because it springs from genuine human grief but because poor Uncle Ted , no matter how theologically illiterate he may have been , deserves better . |
| 2 | just because you vote for Labour |
| 3 | But with the tide of war now running against the Allies , many of the natives decided to join the winning side , just as they had in Dutch Timor the previous winter . |
| 4 | Children come across written numbers , just as they come across written words , long before they are able to read or understand them . |
| 5 | Spectacular scientific advances have come from them just as they have from other institutions . |
| 6 | Middle class feminists also objected to this increasing ‘ officialism , police interference and espionage ’ , just as they objected to other aspects of state intervention in the working class family and to protective legislation for women workers . |
| 7 | Just as we differ in mental and physical characteristics , so too do we differ when the detailed properties of our body clock are considered . |
| 8 | It is thought that they are able to do this partly by measuring pressure , just as we rely on atmospheric pressure readings from barometers to forecast the weather . |
| 9 | Thus it might be possible to have quite separate words for , say , kills , killed , is killing , and so on , just as we have in English separate words for man ( male human ) and woman ( female human ) or people ( humans in the plural ) . |
| 10 | Just as you care for dry skin on the face , the scalp needs a soothing touch … gentle cleansing and moisturising . |
| 11 | You will find this card a real boon anywhere in Europe because it allows you to pay for goods and services with eurocheques , just as you do with ordinary cheques at home . |
| 12 | In the south of France , and especially the southeast , the legacy of Ancient Rome represented the overwhelming influence on Gothic architecture just as it had on Romanesque here before this . |
| 13 | ‘ The general public has a deepseated distrust of science and technology , and insists on ‘ civilian control ’ of science and scientists just as it insists on civilian control of the military ’ . |
| 14 | I do not mean to imply that the biochemistry is primary , or any more fundamental in the reductionist sense than the physiology ; what I am saying is that changed biochemistry translates into changed physiology just as it does into changed behaviour . |
| 15 | Some will actually feel that they are inside the body of the former self , and that everything is going on around them just as it does in ordinary life . |
| 16 | In other words " blood " means death — the termination of life — just as it does in ordinary metaphorical usage ( see , for instance , Genesis 9:5 , 37:26 ; etc . ) . |
| 17 | An element of choice faces the student , just as it does in real life . |